RB: Ch 22 Sleeping Arrangements for the Community
Mass: Si 5:1-8; Resp Ps 1; Mk 9:41-50
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
The Lord's command to 'Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another' is a call to conversion. Just as food is tasteless with either no salt added or insipid salt added, we too are 'tasteless' without a daily dose of 'salt'. By that I mean we are lifeless, dull and without vim and vigour. We must be on the alert and ready to turn our hearts to the Lord, making changes in our lives in order to follow Jesus more closely. A passage from today's first reading at Mass reads, 'Delay not your conversion to the Lord, put it not off from day to day.' Let's us not forget to add a dash of salt now. One way to add a little salt to our lives is to incorporate a daily examination of conscience as tweeted by the Holy Father.
Let's take a little time every day to examine our conscience, to convert to the Lord. Five minutes at the end of each day will help us to think about a change of heart and conversion to the Lord, without procrastination.
(Pope Francis, Twitter, February 28, 2019)
Blessed the one who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the Lord
and meditates on his law day and night.
(Resp Ps 1)
Blessed the one who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the Lord
and meditates on his law day and night.
(Resp Ps 1)
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